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Chapter 28 "Gu Xichao"'s extraordinary talent!

As the filming continued, the male lead of the TV series, "Qi Shaoshang", who has a lot of rival scenes with "Gu Xichao" played by Sheng Yunxuan, also joined the crew to participate in the filming.

The actor who plays this role is Julian Cheung.

He has not yet played "Lu Xiaofeng", so he has not yet achieved his achievement of playing all the leading male characters in the martial arts novels "Jin Gu Liang Wen"...

After he joined the crew, because they had to follow Zhang Zhilin's schedule, the crew's filming tasks mostly revolved around him.

As a result, Sheng Yunxuan's daily announcement schedule also became tense.

In this drama, the relationship between the protagonists "Qi Shaoshang" and "Gu Xichao" is actually quite complicated.

The two are enemies who fight to the death when they meet, but if you put aside their identities and experiences, their personalities are actually quite compatible.

Gu Xichao, who had never been appreciated by anyone, was recognized and appreciated by Qi Shaoshang when he first met him.

Because of Gu Xichao's military and literary talents, Qi Shaoshang even wanted to entrust his Lianyun Village to him!
Even though Gu Xichao was trying to get closer to Qi Shaoshang at this time, he naturally couldn't be unmoved by Qi Shaoshang's recognition and appreciation.

He took the initiative to play a piece of music for Qi Shaoshang, which made him very excited and he danced with the sword in harmony.

The two admired each other and regarded each other as close friends, but because of their different positions and concepts, they became sworn enemies.

This kind of character portrayal will undoubtedly make the role of "Gu Xichao" played by Sheng Yunxuan more three-dimensional and complex...

At this time on the set, the crew members were making preparations.

Sheng Yunxuan, who was already ready for the shoot, was sitting nearby waiting.

A staff member brought over a three-stringed zither, which would be used as a prop for the subsequent filming.

"Playing the qin" is generally considered to refer to the guqin, or at least the guzheng.

But the props team chose a sanxian (three-stringed zither) in order to match the northwestern scenery and temperament of the filming location.

Sheng Yunxuan reached out to take the sanxian, played with it casually in his hand, and then directly played a tune.

The sudden sound of a shamisen on the set immediately attracted many people around to look over.

Assistant Fang Lan beside him said in surprise:
"Brother, can you play this?"

Sheng Yunxuan smiled and nodded when he heard this:
"know a little!"

It comes from Gu Xichao's "experience in music, chess, calligraphy and painting", which is actually quite general. A more intuitive description should be Gu Xichao's talent experience.

These experiences alone have enabled Sheng Yunxuan to play many musical instruments.

In addition to the guqin and sanxian, there are also instruments such as guzheng, pipa, flute, xiao, and xun...

Therefore, the character setting of "Gu Xichao" is simply amazing!

He could take the imperial examination and win the third place in the imperial examination. He was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and understood astronomy, geography and yin and yang.

After joining the army, he was able to kill thousands of enemies within a few years and wrote such an exquisite military book as "Seven Strategies".

Even his martial arts skills can be considered top-notch in the martial arts world. Just looking at the martial arts settings in the TV series, he is only inferior to a few people.

The most important thing is that he was just a child born to a prostitute. Whether it was studying or martial arts, he relied entirely on self-study...

Fang Lan blinked twice and asked curiously:
"Could you play it for me, brother?"

Sheng Yunxuan did not refuse, and then smiled and played the song "The Flower Protector". Fang Lan sat next to him, looking forward to Sheng Yunxuan's next performance.

In her impression, the melodies played by the sanxian are either in the Yanjing style or in the rich and bright style of the Northwest.

But she never expected that the tune played by Sheng Yunxuan was so brisk and magical that Fang Lan subconsciously started to sway along.

Fang Lan couldn't hold it in any longer, she covered her mouth and laughed, saying:

"Brother, you play the piano so improperly!"

Sheng Yunxuan paused when he heard this, but rolled his eyes at her and said:

"What's not serious? This is a song by Hacken Lee. Haven't you heard it?"

The song "Flower Guardian" is a Cantonese song released by Hacken Lee in 91. It was popular for a while in the early years, and many years later it became popular again because of the balalaika version on short videos.

It is known as "Tang Dynasty electronic music, Chinese people don't dance to foreign disco!"

The Internet was not well developed back then, and songs were mostly recorded in albums. Most people have never heard many good songs from many years ago.

Or maybe you’ve heard of it but don’t know its specific name…

At this time, Fang Lan was a little confused and uncertain!
Director Ju and Julian Cheung next to them are from Hong Kong Island. They didn’t react immediately when they heard the melody.

It just feels very familiar, but I don’t know what tune it is.

It wasn't until Sheng Yunxuan said it was the Cantonese song "The Flower Guardian" that he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Director Ju came over and said with a smile:
"There is such a song, but I didn't expect that playing it with this instrument would feel completely different!"

This brisk modern Cantonese song, played with the rich and bright timbre of the sanxian, immediately gave people a sense of the collapse of ritual and music...

Sheng Yunxuan played the sanxian just for fun. For him, it was also a little trick to distract his attention and get away from the influence of the character's emotions!
Seeing Director Ju also took up the conversation, he smiled and explained:
"I'm just playing it for fun, director, don't mind it!"

But what Director Ju cared about at this time was not the song, but he was surprised that Sheng Yunxuan could actually play the sanxian!
"That's perfect. You can play this instrument, so we won't have to cut shots during filming." Director Ju said with a smile.

To give the simplest example, in costume dramas there are always actors who have to pick up a brush and write letters on paper with beautiful and neat handwriting.

But those are all filmed effects, the actors themselves can't write calligraphy.

For scenes like this, hand shots are usually taken specifically, and the shot will be cut after the actor makes two poses.

Now Sheng Yunxuan can play the piano himself, which makes filming much easier as he doesn’t have to cut shots all the time!

Upon hearing this, Sheng Yunxuan nodded and said "OK".

Having said that, Director Ju casually asked:
"What other instruments do you play?"

Sheng Yunxuan frowned, then said modestly:

"Well, none of them are that great, but I do know a few..."

"I had originally planned to film a few clips of Gu Xichao playing different instruments to showcase the character's talent. If you can play all of them, that would be even better!"

As Director Ju spoke, he looked at Sheng Yunxuan in front of him, and suddenly felt a little emotional.

He is so suitable for the role of "Gu Xichao", why did I subconsciously think that he would not be able to act well before? I really misjudged him...

(End of this chapter)